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5 Mar 2025 | Anna Platonova
Ukraine's monthly exports of sunflower oil and sunflower meal fell to the lowest level since the beginning of the 2024/25 season in February, due to the shutdown of several plants caused by negative processing margins, while exports of soybean and soybean meal rose, according to customs statistics.
5 Mar 2025 | Devora Nedyalkova
Jordan’s state grain importer booked 100,000 tonnes of barley in a tender that closed on Wednesday March 5, trade sources have told Fastmarkets.
Syria’s state buyer, Syrian Grain, has issued its first international tender to buy 100,000 tonnes of optional-origin milling wheat after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in the country on December 8, according to an official note seen by Fastmarkets on Wednesday March 5.
5 Mar 2025 | Jenny Ma
China has set an annual target for grain output at 700 million tonnes for 2025, similar to the level achieved in 2024, according to the Government Work report released following the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Wednesday March 5.
Market Commentary
Wheat Commentary
21 Mar 2025
US wheat futures were little changed on Friday March 21 as market participants awaited fresh headlines before making consequential bets in either direction after pricing in concerns about the effect of tariffs and dry weather in grain-growing areas in the southern Great Plains.
Corn Commentary
21 Mar 2025
US corn futures declined on Friday March 21, reversing most of Thursday’s gains, with market participants expressing concern about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on exports and costs.
Soybean Commentary
21 Mar 2025
Soybean prices went down on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday March 21 on lower soyoil and a higher US Dollar Index, amid profit-taking and positioning ahead of USDA’s late March prospective plantings report.
Vegoils Commentary
21 Mar 2025
Vegoils markets ended the week moving in different directions on Friday March 21. In Asia, crude palm oil (CPO) futures slipped into negative territory at the close of trading, while Chinese vegoils closed with mixed movements. And on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), soyoil futures traded lower following figures showing a drop in US renewable fuel consumption in February.
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Editor's Pick
10 Dec 2024 | Eduardo Tinti
Futures across the soy complex in Chicago reacted mildly to the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report released late in the session on Tuesday December 10, with little changes to global balance sheets and an anticipated increase in US soyoil export figures.
10 Dec 2024 | Marcela Caetano
The US Department of Agriculture has kept its US soybean ending stocks estimate unchanged while increasing its global forecast, the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report showed on Tuesday December 10.
10 Dec 2024 | Mark Shenk
The US Department of Agriculture reduced its estimates for US wheat ending stocks for the 2024/25 marketing year, while bolstering export projections and slightly increasing its global stocks forecast.
10 Dec 2024 | Jocelyn Garcia
The USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report update released on Tuesday December 10 highlights key changes to the US corn outlook, including increased usage (ethanol production as well as food, seed and industrial use), higher exports and reduced ending stocks.
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18 Mar 2025 | Jocelyn Garcia
Mexico has enacted a constitutional reform banning genetically modified (GMO) corn cultivation in the country, according to the government's Official Gazette on Monday, March 17.
19 Mar 2025 | Mark Shenk
The US agriculture sector has strongly felt the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies during the last two months, and market participants do not expect calm to return anytime soon, as he has shown no sign of retreating from his tariff policies or his intention to cut both federal government headcounts and programs.
The Turkish government has announced a corn import allowance of 1 million tonnes until June 30, along with relaxing restrictions on wheat imports, Fastmarkets understands.
17 Mar 2025 | Marcela Caetano
Brazilian soybean exports reached to 6.8 million tonnes in the first two weeks of March, while corn shipments reached 612,929 tonnes in the same period, customs weekly data showed on Monday March 17.
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21 Mar 2025 | Leticia Pakulski
Argentina crushed 2.6 million tonnes of soybeans in February, lower than the 2.9 million tonnes crushed in the previous month and slightly below trade estimates, data from the country’s Secretariat of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries SAGyP showed late Thursday March 20.
21 Mar 2025 | Mark Shenk
Investors in the US corn and soybean markets amassed short positions while trimming longs in the week to Tuesday March 18, helping trim the corn net-long to its lowest level in more than three months; meanwhile the soybean net-short rose, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday March 21.
21 Mar 2025 | Fastmarkets team
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21 Mar 2025 | Masha Belikova
The Russian government reduced the grain export taxes again for the week from March 26 to April 1, the official note from the agriculture ministry showed on Friday March 21.
The state-funded Turkish Grain Board (TMO) has issued new export tender for the sale of durum wheat, according to documents seen by Fastmarkets on Friday March 21.
The European Commission is considering delaying a first set of countermeasures to US tariffs on aluminium and steel until mid-April, EU trade chief Maroš Šefcovic said on Thursday March 20.
21 Mar 2025 | Yana Sukharska
Russia’s wheat exports from Black Sea ports totaled 394,518 tonnes in the week ended Thursday March 20, according to Fastmarkets analytics data published on Friday March 21.